 bozoNZ (393), Christchurch, New Zealand
Mar 22, 2007 330ml bottle b/b 15/06/07. Pale straw coloured, thin milky head.Faint dry hoppy but dominant yeast aroma. Relatively non-descript with a brief wheat finish. Nice quaffer but no classic. No sign of any orange/coriander...???
jimthechap (122), Christchurch, New Zealand
Jan 4, 2007 Smells and looks nice but again (similar to a few Mac’s beers) too much in the way of orange and coriander. I just don’t understand why you’d do that to a witbier. I drank one and gave the other five away (my flatmates love me).
Nicko (126), Sydney, Australia
Oct 1, 2006 Looks like a peroxide blonde. Citrus fruity aromas, like orange crush cordial, which I quite like. Couldn’t see myself drinking more than 1 of these in a sitting though.
ALLOVATE (1127), Perth, Australia
Aug 14, 2006 Witbier - Never really liked the style anyway, but this, this was a shambles. I was a little rough on the pour, just eager to get this little gem into the glass and down the gullet I guess!!!!. Ended with an inch thick, snow-white head that retained well and impressively frosted the sides of the tulip. The body of beer a not so bright (chill haze perhaps!) lemony yellow. Simple club lemon soda aroma with a touch of fresh squeezed lime and good ol’ SWEATY SOCK. Dry and powdery on the palate at first. Quite zingy, lightly sour and favouring lemon fizz-whizz and potato starch. Watery thin in body and quite stretched for any other character aside from a soapy, detergent-like feel and flavour that develops like a plague. Becomes flabby and lifeless by the finish, by which I was glad it was over. Quite honestly boring and chemical to drink. Not good at all. (33cL, 10/11/06, Morley Liquor Merchants)
highlandlad (1207), Sydney, Australia
Jul 18, 2006 A poor Kiwi filtered witbier. As others have observed, this tastes like a spiced lager shandy, with few of the qualities of a good wit. It’s a clear watery gold with a 1cm cap of foam. The aroma is all lime cordial and lemonade - very citric. But in the mouth this really disappoints. It’s a discordant mix of soda water, lemon juice, coriander and lager shandy. Rounded palate, moderate carbonation. The orange peel is too intrusive, giving this a soft drink-like acidity. Just doesn’t come together. (330ml bottle from Clovelly Vintage Cellars)
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